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ORIGINAL: Raverdave

Ah but you have never tasted cheese made on a small Island in Bass Strait called Flinders Island.  Yum !

ORIGINAL: 06 Maestro

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

Ah but you have never tasted cheese made on a small Island in Bass Strait called Flinders Island.  Yum !

So, do I go to Lady Barron for the Cheese? Is she expensive?
I live on the edge once in a while.

ORIGINAL: roeddog

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

ORIGINAL: Skip_Reed


I may not be a WoO historian but any child of the 40's and 50's can tell you of the enchantment of seeing the House spin off into the air with Margret Hamilton changing into the Wicked Witch of the West from the nasty schoolteacher in black and white and suddenly being greeted by a color version of OZ!! Magical! After having to use our imagination for so many years [:)] (Book 1900, Film 1939 re-released 1949, 55, & Color TV 1956) So tis only a figure that Dorothy and Toto did the spinning though they were in a spinning house and can be said to have spun without contradiction.

But they could had been in the house, spiining in the opposite direction, such as it would appear in the house. But if you could see through the house, reverse spinning would place them on some sort of paradimical standstill, such that they appeared not to be spinning, or so I reason[:D], such that the people spinning would work as an effective counter-balance to the house spinning. You doubt me? Well how do people spinning in such a house, without counter-spin, otherwise come out of it without even a headache?

I wasn't born until '59, but though WoO was a pretty decent movie, especially for kids, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" song as sung by Judy had to be one of the most beautiful iconic songs ever sang. I don't know if the writer of that song meant it that way, but it is one of those songs that can be imagined to not actually be singing of Oz, but instead of Heaven, which in my mind makes it a bit more special than it otherwise would be. One thing I can say, I don't think I have ever heard a song by a teenager which will ever sound so good to me. I will always remember it and feel I have really been blessed when out of nowhere I hear it some place. I'm not a big listener of Judy Garland, but i have never heard her sing anything that was even half as appealing as that song has been. One hit wonder pretty much,

I have to agree with you Charles_22. I was born in '59 too, and my mother was a huge fan of Judy Garland and daughter Liza Minelli so I got to hear both... alot! Judy's best was definately "SOtR" I don't think she ever reached that plateau in her singing again. As for daughter Liza, IMO she lived off her mothers fame; not my cup of tea.

Jeff